Körper Seele Geist alte Geheimnisse-altes Wissen

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Maybe you’ve already read David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech at Kenyon University, maybe you haven’t. Either way, this is one hell of a speech, mostly because it’s not grandly inspirational, it’s not overwhelmed with analogies and anecdotes and stuff. It’s just DFW at his best, which means that this speech is about something we all experience but we rarely recognize, let alone put into words, and in my humble opinion this was Wallace’s greatest ability.

Just in case you don’t feel inclined to give this speech a try, here’s my favorite little bit: “The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.”